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Protesters awarded $14 million in lawsuit over Denver police response

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Elisabeth Epps leads a crowd on the Capitol steps on the sixth day of protests in reaction to the killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police. June 2, 2020.

Denver will pay a group of demonstrators millions of dollars for how police treated them during the Black Lives Matter protests in 2020. A federal jury awarded the plaintiffs a combined $14 million after a long trial, which ended Friday. CPR’s Matt Bloom followed the proceedings.